concept
Appeal and Cassation
cassation
also: апелляция, кассация, appeal, cassation
The two-tier system of challenging a magistrate's ruling in Imperial Russian civil procedure -- an ordinary appeal, then cassation (review for legal error) before the Senate; Kikin exploits both to keep dragging out his eviction order.
Reading notes
- In the Rooms §42 appealed and taken it to cassation
The two-tier system for challenging a magistrate's ruling in Imperial Russian civil procedure -- an ordinary appeal, then cassation (review for legal error) -- which Kikin exploits to keep dragging out his eviction.
- The Strays §4 судебную палату, и кассационный департамент
Kozyavkin invokes the higher courts of Imperial Russian procedure -- the judicial chamber (sudebnaya palata) and the Senate's cassation department -- as the epitome of tedious professional grind that a loving wife's welcome will make him forget; the joke is that shortly he will have far more immediate troubles than paperwork.